Will write for food

I’m thrilled to announce that my new novel will finally be coming out next year, and that two articles of mine will soon be published in Orpah magazine. I’m not trying to brag, but these feel like real achievements to me. I have struggled to get to these places, and […]

Dear Someone:
I finished my novel yesterday. Nothing Keeps A Frenchman From His Lunch. Forthcoming from the mighty Random House in 2008. It was due to my editor at 4:30 on Monday, July 18, 2007, (according to our contract) and i pressed the “send” button at 4:27. Voila. Finished. At 4:28 I shut my computer down […]

Dear Readers:
This whole blog thing being new to me, I shall refer you to another website, salon.com. Here, you will find my essay “Me and Marley and Me,” which describes my horror upon discovering that the Same Exact Book I have written had just been published by someone else. And that book is now on […]